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Encyclopedia > Peter Gerety

Peter Gerety began acting at the Charles Playhouse in Boston while a student at Boston University. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, a theater troupe in Providence, RI and went on to appear in over 125 productions there. Gerety is a veteran of stage, screen and television. In early 1992, he performed to critical acclaim on Broadway in "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch, and in Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse". In the late 90s he joined the cast of the Barry Levinson produced NBC police drama "Homicide: Life on the Street.” Gerety has been a regular guest star on “Law & Order” and HBO’s “The Wire” and has appeared in numerous feature films with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey and with directors, Woody Allen, (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending), Mike Nichols, (WOLF), Barry Levinson, (Sleepers) James Ivory, (Surviving Picasso) Steven Speilberg, War of the Worlds, and Ido Mizrahy, Things That Hang from Trees. Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935 in the The Bronx, New York) is an American actor best known for playing Alex Rieger on the television show Taxi. ... Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (born October 10, 1930) is an English playwright and theatre director. ... Barry Levinson (b. ... The 1986 Peacock logo, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television. ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... The Wire may refer to: British music magazine The Wire American television show The Wire The telegraph service. ... Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. ... Shirley MacLaine, born Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia), is an American actress, well-known not only for her acting but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. ... Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ... Kevin Spacey as Verbal in The Usual Suspects Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959 in South Orange, New Jersey), better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of Welsh descent. ... Woody Allen. ... The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 film directed by, written by, and starring Woody Allen. ... Hollywood Ending is a 2002 motion picture which tells a story of once-famous film director who turned blind given the intense pressure of directing. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Sleepers has several meanings: For the film Sleepers, see Sleepers (movie) For railway sleepers, see Rail tracks This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio but raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona), is an American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ... The War of the Worlds is a novel written by H.G. Wells in 1898 depicting an alien invasion of the earth. ... Things That Hang from Trees is a 2005 drama film, directed by Ido Mizrahy and written by Aaron Louis Tordini. ...


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Archdiocese of Newark (392 words)
Most Reverend Peter L. Gerety, D.D., of Portland, Maine was appointed the Third Archbishop of Newark on April 2, 1974 and installed on June 28, 1974.
Gerety's seminary studies were completed at St. Sulpice Seminary in France and he was ordained at Notre Dame in Paris in 1939.
Archbishop Gerety opened the Cathedral's doors to the Episcopal Church when John Shelby Spong was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark in the Cathedral sanctuary.
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